cantonment
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
A few walked alone, their faces frozen in shock, as helicopters landed every few minutes on a football field inside the town's military cantonment, whipping up clouds of dust.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
Every year, Ambala, a British colonial-era army cantonment, has typically drawn hundreds of youth into the military with the prospect of lifetime employment.
From Reuters ● Sep. 7, 2022
The incident occurred at Mathura cantonment railway station in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2022
Through their research, the cousins determined Armstrong’s original burial site in 1941 was in the British cantonment area of St. Luke’s Anglican Church Cemetery in Toungoo, Burma.
From Washington Times ● May 29, 2017
The Foreign Legion certainly did not show at its best in a cantonment.
From The Truants by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason
